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Midge1978 · 15/02/2018 08:17

Just checking I'm not the only one who does this! Grin

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alltoomuchrightnow · 15/02/2018 19:33

Somuch... I used to have a customer for years that I named Manbag!

BeeFarseer · 15/02/2018 19:34

I work with a team of people who I never see, but I see their handwriting a lot.

There's 'Fancy Calligrapher', 'Writes-like-a-Doctor' and 'Annoyingly Tiny Writing Person'.

Out of the people I work with and actually see, there's Tight T-shirt Man, the Addicted to Tea Crew, Sir Chatsalot and Smells Like a Badger.

BlackeyedSusan · 15/02/2018 19:37

neighbours: the cleaning lady. (she is out with the washing really early and washiing up a lot.)

and weekend dad. (his dd used to come everyother weekend with a big bag.

we know a lot of the neighbours by name, and the rest seem to come and go too often to get a name. many of then are just known by their numbered flat.

5BlueHydrangea · 15/02/2018 19:38

I used to have neighbours (so not quite the same I know) called Mrs Downstairs - because she lived downstairs... and a mother/daughter combo who lived together called Dollop and Cabbage! They weren't the brightest...

Andrewofgg · 15/02/2018 19:42

The manager nobody wants to work for:

Nobody-likes-her-everybody-hates-her.

SoMuchToBits · 15/02/2018 19:42

alltoomuch Grin great minds think alike!

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 15/02/2018 19:45

Oh another one - teacher at DS's school is Mr Tumble because he looks just like Justin Fletcher.

ChiaraRimini · 15/02/2018 19:47

The Wise Old Elf (has beard and makes fuck ups)
Commander Data (robot like efficiency and lack of human emotion)

lildevil · 15/02/2018 19:51

I used to work with someone who we nicknamed Billgo. His name was Bill and he always came out with the same sentences. We drew up some bingo boards with his various sayings on it and whoever filled the board first won. Made so many boring shifts bearable

Mulch · 15/02/2018 19:52

Human headache is one of my colleagues

Andrewofgg · 15/02/2018 19:53

And the staff at my local Starbucks call me Andrew Lasca for Large Skinny Cappuccino which is my caffeine shot de choix!

PonderLand · 15/02/2018 19:54

I used to work with a woman that worked really fast then went shopping for the rest of her shift - Kelly 'Bolt'
Play on speed and her exit.

Oh and also MC plaque, he was a famous YouTube rapper and had the worst teeth I've ever seen. It was a funny day when we found his YouTube videos.

CanIGoToBedNow · 15/02/2018 19:55

I once worked with a FWOT ‘fucking waste of time’

A bigus dickus (he was very big and called richard)

Andrewofgg · 15/02/2018 19:58

CanIGoToBedNow I am disappointed!

mustbemad17 · 15/02/2018 20:01

Never had them for colleagues, or really SUs either. I did earn myself nickname Sargent Major seperately from majority of our clients tho...became a bit of a standing joke Grin

IncidentalAnarchist · 15/02/2018 20:07

We have a Dementor... sucks the joy out of eeeeeeverything

Flipflopflipflap · 15/02/2018 20:12

Colleagues
(From various jobs over the years, were all pretty lovely to be honest!)
Fat first name
Psycho first name
Shouty first name
Tiny first name
Nick the dick (it only has the same effect if you know the real first name)
Matt the twat
Noodle (due to messy hair)
His royal highness (for the overall manager)
Prince Charming (for the second in command, also best mates with HRH, and looking very very rough so PC is a bit of a joke)
Princess peach- PC’s wife

Clients/customers

Hairy mole first name
Banjo man
Nicker twist Norma
Half job harry
Heroin mum 😢 (her children were the politest most beautiful little things)

Heartofglass12345 · 15/02/2018 20:12

I was texting my friend about our manager once and my phone autocorrected cunt to cynthia, so that was her name if we talked about her to each other lol. She lived up to it to be fair

Risen · 15/02/2018 20:13

"Bald Bitch Barbie"

This has me howling Grin

HiddeninPLANEsight · 15/02/2018 20:20

Boss: Elevenerife or Scabbers - always goes one better, picks his scabs, looks like scabbers from Harry Potter
Boss's mate: Captain Awesome, Lick Mygroin, Snow White - says awesome a lot, name rhymes
Boss's favourite: Wonderboy, Buttscratcher
One team of 5 are called the seven dwarves as a couple of them are short. They work for Snow White.
The area the young ones work in is called the Youth Club.
Our whole department is known as The Adams Family as we have a reputation for being a bit odd.
I've recently found out they call me Nanny McPhee Blush

clockworklime · 15/02/2018 20:24

Our Office:

Lunchbox Rob (due to his unfeasibly full trouser package)
Edmunds (bearded guy)
Miss Marple (nosey older lady)
The Arse (manager -named because of his perfect arse, not that he is one. I don't believe.)

lildevil · 15/02/2018 20:28

I work with Fly Pie Roy. Named because he ate a pie that a fly that had been on. This was in the height of summer while working at a waste management depot

Billoddiesbeard · 15/02/2018 20:43

My previous boss was known by the rest of the team as "3 lips" because he was a cunt and a half 🤣

RavenLG · 15/02/2018 20:50

Not nicknames per say, but our --very professional- work whatsapp group is primarily used for slagging off the other nobs in our department.

RavenLG · 15/02/2018 20:50

strikeout fail

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